Quanta vida cabe em cinco anos ? Leituras nas aulas de história sobre raça, gênero e classe a partir do diário Quarto de Despejo (1960)

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the study of History and Literature in the classroom, with the historical source to be analyzed being the work "Quarto de Despejo: Diário de uma Favelada" (1960) by Carolina Maria de Jesus, and a portion of Chapter 12 from the textbook "História, Sociedade e Cidadania" (2018) by Alfredo Boulos, for the 9th grade of Basic Education. In Carolina Maria de Jesus's diary, we examine reflections on her experience as a mother, woman, black person, cardboard collector, and resident of the Canindé Favela (São Paulo). In the textbook, our attention is drawn to the developmental discourse prevalent during the second decade of the 1950s in Juscelino Kubitschek's government. To achieve this goal, we seek to apply historical literacy in our research, thus expanding the construction of teaching and learning from a horizontal, cooperative, anti-sexist, and decolonial perspective in the teaching of History. These discussions contribute to broadening the possibilities of retelling history, considering both the pains and the redefinitions carried out by marginalized women who do not conform to the homogeneous, white, elitist standard often overlooked in textbooks. For our theoretical foundation, we draw on authors such as Pesavento (2004), Bittencourt (2008), Schmidt (2009), Crenshaw (2002), Louro (2012), Lugones (2019), Petit (2009; 2019), Hooks (2017), Vergés (2020), Schwarcz (2015), Rocha (2020), Soares (2009; 2011), Pearce (1978), Bassanezi (2022), and others. In this sense, qualitative research takes place through the content analysis of the textual genre "diary." The final product is the script for a theatrical play about the mentioned author.